Harri Moora

Moora, Harri

(also, Harri Al’bertovich Moora). Born Mar. 2, 1900, in Ehavere, in present-day Tartu Raion, Estonian SSR; died May 2, 1968, in Tallinn. Estonian archaeologist and historian. Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR (1957).

From 1930 to 1942 and from 1944 to 1950, Moora was a professor at the University of Tartu; in 1947 he became head of the section of archaeology and ethnography of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR. Moora’s chief works deal with the Iron Age in the Baltic region and with the ethnogeny of its peoples; sites of fortified settlements in Estonia; the rise of a class society in the Baltic region; and the historical-cultural regions of the present-day Baltic republics. Moora was awarded the order of the Badge of Honor.

Tallgren's work was continued by his pupils, especially Harri Moora (1900-1968) (Tvauri 2003, 52 f.

Popular education in prehistory was provided by Harri Moora with his book Eestlaste kultuur muistsel iseseisvus-ajal (The culture of the Estonians in their ancient period of independence) in 1926.

Tallgren, Harri Moora was critical of the assumed complete depopulation of Finland in the Pre-Roman Period.

Despite his liberal world view, Harri Moora clearly comes closer in Eesti ajalugu to the demands for an increasingly nationalistic view of history, especially emphasizing the well-organized Late Iron Age Estonian society and the strong will of the ancient Estonians to preserve their independence (Moora 1932, 41; 1933/2002; Moora et al.

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